Phonograph-operated game.



A. D. AVERY & B. MANBERT.

PHQNOGRAPH OPERATED GAME. APPLICATION FILED MAY 22. 1918.-

1,292,228. Patented Jan. 21, 1919.

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UNITED STATES PATENT carton;

ARTHUR D. AVERY AND BARTON MANBERT, OF LOS AN GELES, CALIFORNIA.

PHONOGRAPH-OPERATED GAME.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 21, 1919.

Application filed May 22, 1918. Serial No. 236,026.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ARTHUR D. AVERY and BARTON MANBERT, both citizens of the United States, residing at Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have jointly invented new and useful Improvements in Phonograph-Operated Games, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to phonographoperated games, and has for its object to provide a new and novel game comprising, the combination with the rotating element or record table of a phonograph instrument, of certain members and means which perform their functions coincident with or resultant in part upon, the rotation of such record-supporting member or rotating phonograph table. It will be understood that the utilization of any other suitable rotating base or table, in substitution for the rotating record table of a phonograph, in this combination, will still be clearly within the spirit and domain of the invention, but the game is particularly adapted to take advantage of the presence in so many homes of phonograph instruments with rotating record tables, which admirably cooperate with the other features of the game to provide the working combination.

The invention has for further particular objects the provision of a new and useful and amusing and instructive and entertaining game of the general character stated, which will be superior in point of relative simplicity and inexpensiveness of construction and organization, facility of adaptation to or association or combination with phonoor substitute mechanisms, which will be reliable and positive convenient to manipugenerally superior in late and operate, and

efficiency and serv cefattractiveness, utility, ability.

With the above and other objects inview, the inventlon consists in the novel and useful provision, formation, combination, association and relative arrangement of parts, as herelnafter de scribed, shown in the drawing, and finally pointed out in claims.

In the drawing:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a conventional phonograp ic instrument, or the upper portion thereof, illustrating the combination of parts thereof with certain other .with a retaining features and members to game combination embodying and exemplis fying the invention; 1

Fig. 2 is a slightly enlarged detail face plan view of a member of the game combi-. nation, in detached position;

produce a resultant 1g. 3 is a perspective view of a further member of the game combination, also in detached position, also on a slightly enlarged scale; and a Fig. 4 is a similar view of a further or a phonographic instrument B, having the therewith, and to be rotated therewith; and

an agitator F which cooperates with balls or other scoring devices 2; which are caused to move about upon the upper surface of the disk E upon its rotation, responsive to action of the agitator F.

Preferably the disk E has aplurality of I.

openings 5 adapted to receive the balls 6, and so associated with pictorial matter or readingmatter or symbols or the like, as to produce a certain balls find and come to rest in the respective openings. The disk is preferably provided a flexible strip of suitable material, and may wall 6 which maycomprise game reading when said be conveniently held to the periphery of the disk E by means o f a plurality of slots or openings 7 which receive spaced peripheral projections 8 upon the disk, such disk to that end being polygonal in its superficial plan. The ends of the flexible it has been applied to the periphery-of the disk E may be held or drawn or secured together by a cord 9 fastened to one end of the strip as at 10, and adapted to be looped about a the other end of the strip.

The disk E has a central opening 12 which registers with the rotating axis of the table A, and is adapted to receive freely one end strip 6, after button or thelike 11 upon v soft material 20; When prise two parts, f and g The part f may e formed of a suitable length of stifi wire.

formed into a helix the central opening thence directed as at i developed into, a downwardly pro ecting loop or finger 15 in turn terminating in an eye 16. The part 9 may likewise be formed of a length of stiff Wire formed into an elongated loop 17 providing a body portion adapted to register with the eye 16, and to be locked thereto in position of adjustment by a clamping" device 181 From the loop 18 extends an upwardly arched hook 19 which may be covered with rubber tubing or other the centering helix 13 is inserted in the opening 12, the finger 15"will take its place just inside of the retaining wall 6, and the covered hook 19 may be thrownoverthe arm C, all as shown infFig; 1. The parts 7' and 9 may be adjusted to extend the length of the agitator or'may' be adjusted relatively in an angular sense, all as shown in Fig. 4, and to adapt the agitator to use with diiferent forms and arrangements of phonograph arms.

The operation, method of use and advancages and features of attractiveness amusement, education, and the like, incident to the use of the new game, will be readily understood from the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawingaandthe renewing statement: 7 i QWith theparts in positionsshown in Fig. 1', n which the disk E is partially broken away to exposetheupper surface of the rotatingtable; the rotation of the table Will causethe'balls e to be violently thrown about in a general centrifugal action, within the confines set by the retaining wall 6. When thrown against such wall they are in position to engage the agitator finger 15,-which causes them to be'again thrown about over the surface of the disk, until they finally find and seat themselves in certain of the o enings 5; When they are all thus located, the rotation of thetable A is stopped, and thevalues or readings pertinent to the respective openings in which the balls rest, arejn adeneteef in determiningjthe results the game or the winners; as the case 13 at one end, to enter 12 in the disk, and

may-he.

It is manifestthat many wide variations eta-a esand substitutions and adaptations maybemade, all with respect to the matter of the foregoing description and statement'aiid drawing, in adapting the inveatitir to varying" conditions and kinds of use andseijiiicmin connection withthe playing of various ganiesr, all without departing from the spirit of the invention. Havin thus disclosed our invention, we

- laim an desire to secure by Letters Patent:

the character described ineltemgyineembinanon with a phonograph 14: in a straight arm arm,

formed with a rotary table, a separate disk supported removably upon the table and formed with a series of pockets, a retaining wall extending around the disk, objects loose upon the disk and adapted to be seated within the, pockets, and a fixed agitatorarm extending over the disk for engagement with the before'mentioned objects, said agitator arm being detachably applied to and supported by the phonograph. 7 i

A game of the character described including, in combination with a phonograph formed with a rotary table and reproducer carrying arm, of a disk supported on the table to rotate therewith and provided with a series of pockets in the top thereof, a retaining wall extending around the disk, objects loose upon the disk and adapt-ed to be seated in the pockets, and a fixed agitator arm extending over the disk, one-end thereof being provided with means for engagement with the center of the disk while the other end thereof is provided with means for engagement with the reproducer carrying arm. 3. A game of the character described'in cluding, in combinationwith a phonograph formed with a rotary table and sound reproducing arm, a disk supported on the table and formed with a series of pockets, a retaining wall extending around the disk, objects loose upon the disk and adapted to be seated in the pockets, and a fixed agitator arm extending over th disk and formed-in mit of the effective length'of the arm being increased or decreased, one end of theflarni being provided with means. for engagin' the center of the disk, while the other en thereof is provided with means for engaging the reproducer carrying arm, V

41. A game of the character described including, in combination with a phonograph formed with a rotarytable and reproducer carrying arm, a disk supported on the table and provided with a series of pockets, a retaining wall extending around the disk, objects loose upon the disk and adapted to be seated within the pockets, arm extending radially over the disk and formed in adjustably connected sections,one end of the arm being i for engaging the center of the disk,while the other end thereof is provided with means for engaging thesound reproducing and an agitating finger extending downwardly from the arm adjacent'the retaining wall. V

5. A game of the character described including, in combination with a phonograph formed with a rotary table and reproducer carrying arm, a disk supported upon the table and formed with a series of pockets and also with a central opening, a retaining "upon the disk and adapted to be seated withprovided with means a fixed agitator in the pockets, a fixed agitator arm extending-over the disk and provided at one end thereof with means for engaging the central opening of the disk and at the other end thereof with a hook for engaging the reproducer carrying arm. I

6. A game of the character described including, in combination with a phonograph formed with a rotary table and reproducer carrying arm, a disk supported upon the table and formed with a series of pockets and also with a central opening, a retaining wall extending around the disk, objects loose upon the disk and adapted to be seated in the pockets, a fixed agitator arm extending over the disk and formed in adjustably connected sections, one end of the arm terminating in a downwardly extending coil adapted to engage the central opening of the disk while the other end thereof terminates in a hooked portion adapted to engage the reproducer carrying arm, and an ag1tator finger extending downwardly from the arm at a point adjacent the retaining wall.

A game of the character described including, in combination with a phonograph formed with a rotary table and reproducer carrying arm, a disk supported upon the Copies of this patent may be obtained for ave cents each,

table and formed with a series of pockets, objects loose upon the disk and adapted to be seated in the pockets, and an agitator arm extending over the disk for engagement with the objects when the disk is rotated, said agitator arm extending between the center of the disk and the reproducer carrying arm.

8. In a game of the character disclosed, a rotating member, said rotating member be ing associated with the record-supporting table of a phonograph instrument, such phonograph instrument having a swinging arm provided with sound-reproducing means, and an agitator for objects adapted to traverse the surface of the rotating member, such agitator being adapted to be supported at one end at the center of said rotating element, and being formed to be engaged with said arm as a support for the other end of the agitator.

In testimony whereof, we have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ARTHUR D. AVERY. BARTON MANBERT. Witnesses:

WILLIS S. MITCHELL, J. SHUTT.

by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C. 

